: a white-rooted beet grown for the sugar in its roots
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White sugar or table sugar is processed from sugar cane plants or sugar beets.—Barbie Cervoni, Verywell Health, 19 Aug. 2025 What Are Cane Sugar and High-Fructose Corn Syrup? Cane sugar, also called sucrose, comes from sugarcane or sugar beets.—Morgan Pearson, Verywell Health, 6 Aug. 2025 Corn syrup has been used in the production of Coca-Cola in the U.S. since 1984, when the soda company announced a switch from traditional sugar cane and sugar beet.—Callum Sutherland, Time, 22 July 2025 Sucrose from sugarcane and sugar beets was the primary sweetener globally until 1957, according to Britannica.—Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 18 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for sugar beet
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